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Originally Posted by Open Mind  if the brain evolved to filtered psi out (and there are strong arguments why that would occur) ... psi will leak from an unconscious (i.e. filtered consciousness) level into the consciousness. |
Well, of course, everything depends on your own pet theory about how Psi is suppose to work.
It's not because Sue Blackmore doesn't share your own pet theory that she's wrong.
We can only stress that because there is no convincing theory about how Psi works (or if you prefer a theory that reached a scientific consensus), it's difficult to say something meaningfull about it.
If nobody knows how it works, well, it's obviously difficult to talk about it.
Myself, I don't see why Psi (let's say that it's like a 6th sense, the brain is like a radio blablabla and can extract some informations from "outside" itself blablabla) will help answer the hard problem. Well, anyway, I'm a materialist, so for me there is not really a hard problem (the consciousness is the by-product of the brain).
But I still don't see how the Psi can mean a big deal in that debate, even if it's true. I do think that Psi-believers tends to overstate the important of what they are trying to do (like when Alex states that medium research is way more important that research looking for a treatment for cancer).